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In 2013, Darin Barney of McGill University wrote that: | In 2013, Darin Barney of McGill University wrote that: | ||
{{quote|Butler's work on gender, sex, sexuality, queerness, feminism, bodies, political speech and ethics has changed the way scholars all over the world think, talk and write about identity, subjectivity, power and politics. It has also changed the lives of countless people whose bodies, genders, sexualities and desires have made them subject to violence, exclusion and oppression.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barney|first=Darin|title=In Defense of Judith Butler|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/darin-barney/in-defense-of-judith-butler-mcgill_b_3346589.html|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=9 October 2013}}</ref>}} | {{quote|Butler's work on gender, sex, sexuality, queerness, [[feminism]], bodies, political speech and ethics has changed the way scholars all over the world think, talk and write about [[identity]], subjectivity, power and politics. It has also changed the lives of countless people whose bodies, genders, sexualities and desires have made them subject to violence, exclusion and oppression.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barney|first=Darin|title=In Defense of Judith Butler|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/darin-barney/in-defense-of-judith-butler-mcgill_b_3346589.html|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=9 October 2013}}</ref>}} | ||
Butler is a lesbian and lives with their partner Wendy Brown, a political theorist; they have a son together. | Butler is a lesbian and lives with their partner Wendy Brown, a political theorist; they have a son together. | ||
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{{quote|If someone asks for recognition as a given gender or wishes to be addressed by a certain [[pronoun]], it is important to honor that request for recognition and change one's language practice.<ref name="kian2019">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler on her Philosophy and Current Events |author=kian |work=Interviews by Kian |date=27 December 2019 |access-date=19 June 2021 |url= https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/}}</ref>}} | |||
{{quote|It is always brave to insist on undergoing [[Transition|transformations]] that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of [[Identity|self-definition]]. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. [[Surgery|Surgical intervention]] can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life. | {{quote|It is always brave to insist on undergoing [[Transition|transformations]] that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of [[Identity|self-definition]]. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. [[Surgery|Surgical intervention]] can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life. | ||
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